B100. Getting sleep.. 12.14.19.41.42.55.56.62.68.

In the past or in a distant country, sleep was not known; a character embodies or owns a dream; sleep is a special substance.

Hausa, Berbers of Morocco, Banks Islands, Upper Kuskoquim, Tsimshian, Guahiro, Yaruro, Vakuenai, Uitoto, Andoke, Okaina, Makuna, Nambikwara, Kamayura, Bakairi.

West Africa. Hausa [one woman's daughter is married in a city where they don't sleep, the other in the one where they don't spit; the mother went to visit the first one; she was awake all night but fell asleep in the morning; the neighbor came in and decided that she died; they were going to bury her, but her daughter woke her up, then the city residents learned to sleep; the mother came to another daughter, spat in the stable, the ground screamed that she was not used to this; they brought special pumpkins, they grab the spit and sing; they grabbed a woman, but Spider liked the way the pumpkins sing; he agreed to spit, the pumpkins turned to him; he climbed a tree, jumped down to make them crush, crash to death; people in that city have since spit]: Tremearne 1913, No. 83:397-401.

North Africa. The Berbers of Morocco (Figuig - eastern Morocco) [the Dabb lizard slept; she did not give it to anyone; in her absence, a man entered her cave, grabbed the first bag he came across in the dark; he found himself black, so people sleep at night]: Thay Thay 2001, #19:20.

Melanesia. Banks Islands [Quat swam to the Foot of Heaven to get darkness from the Night; the night made his eyelids dark, explained how to sleep; when K. returned, people began to fall asleep, they first thought they were dying; but he assured them they would wake up again in the morning]: Frobenius in Tremearne 1913:401.

Subarctic. Upper chuskoquim [two sons complain to their father that their uncle Ch'ititazkane is just sitting at home asking them to melt the snow and bring him a drink; the father advises him to bring his brother water with the dog crap; C. is offended, leaves; a man kills beavers, bakes one, gives C.; in the morning there are no signs of a fire, it was Wolverine; C. makes a boat; takes the chest bone of a black grouse as a model for the frame (Dendragapus canadensis); asks who will sew the birch bark cover; hears a response from the forest and from the coastal willow; spies on two pretty young girls sew; in the morning he sees that one has small stitches, the other big, and her hair was disheveled; opens large stitches, calls again, the neat girl finishes her work; C. tries to grab her, but she flew away; C. will tar the boat, sails on the river; someone with the shores tried to grab him, C. stabbed the attacker in the eye; it was the Mouse, so the mice had small eyes; C. sees a trap on the river, falls into it, pretends to be dead; the catcher brings him home, she is surprised that the prey blows the winds; puts a baton under C. He jumps up, kills the owner, the old woman falls on the tail, so the wolverines have a flat tail; Wolverine's wife climbed a tree, became write from there; C. left her alone, returned to the boat; the man spears salmon; C. turns into salmon, takes the tip; this is the beak of a seagull; C. comes to that man, he asks if he is not deprived him of his tip; a girl comes to C. in the parking lot; he sees that she was making human skin; he does not agree with her, wants to know how she kills people; she spreads his legs, puts her wand in, takes him out half; thinks she killed him; but he jumps up, kills her with a truncheon; they come to people who don't know what a dream is; he falls asleep, they think he's dead; he teaches them to sleep; C. sees the bear sleeping on the shore, with his blueberry-smeared ass out; C. tells him he will not sleep like this; the bear runs away into the forest; since then, bears have not slept by the shore]: Deaphon et al. s.a.: 74-84.

NW Coast. Tsimshian [Sky is annoyed by the noise of children playing; it lowers feathers; one boy puts them on his head, begins to rise into the air; others grab it, stick, all the people of the village disappear into the sky; a menstruating girl and her grandmother remain; the girl puts three wedges of different types of trees, a grain grater, a knife on her stomach; four days later she gives birth to sons and (from a knife) a daughter; when they they begin to climb, the Grater turns into a mountain; when the mountain begins to tremble, the sister cuts off the feathers with a knife; they remain forever on the older brother's head; now his name is Rotten Feathers; they fall from the sky bones; GP runs feathers over them, reviving the dead; {here p. 100 ends the first part}; brothers go up the river; old woman Great Goose warns them of dangers; old woman Knife-hand cuts off heads to her daughter's grooms; GP crosses a fragile bridge with magic feathers on the way to her; changes her hairstyle to his wife's at night and vice versa; the old woman mistakenly cuts off her daughter's head; the GP leaves, changes her name to Labretka; marries Sna's daughter, runs with her; the night pot warns the owner, he does not react; then a wooden hammer hits him, Sleep wakes up, catches up with the fugitives in his a fast boat, creates a mountain in front of them, then throws a comb, which turns into a forest; Labretka makes a passage both times with her magic pen; Sleep stops chasing; his mask is used in rituals] : Boas 1902:94-100, 234-235.

The Northern Andes. Guajiro [the howler monkey owned the lightning; he left it at the edge of his field for the night, the neighbors' fields burned down; they decided to put him to sleep; the bittern sang, the bird (considered chatty, flies in flocks) tried speak to the Howler Monkey, but he did not fall asleep; then the Lizard was sent for Rain's grandfather Sleep; the Lizard brought him, the howler monkey fell asleep; Rain (Juya) took his weapon; gave the Lizard a lightning bolt; she had a zipper on her throat orange leather that "shoots" towards the rain like lightning; The rain is gone, with his younger brothers Sirius, the Pleiades, etc., each sending a certain type of rain]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1986 (1), No. 98:281-282.

Llanos. Yaruro [people haven't slept; an old woman finds a dream master who slept in the dark; he gives her a slice of sleep, people have been sleeping ever since]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990c, No. 33:56-57.

NW Amazon. Vakuenai [the sun is motionless in the sky; made of bone goes to Grandfather's Sleep (Dáinali) to get night and sleep; to look at it, he must raise his eyelashes on purpose, they are too much long; SK decides to ask for sleep heels, not sleep eyelashes, because eyelashes grow very long over time {not entirely clear}; Grandfather sleep cuts off piece by piece from his left and right heel, puts it in his purse, tells him not open on the way; the burden is very heavy, people open it, a forest chicken flies out of her purse, hides at sunset, the sun goes with it, it gets dark; Ámaru's first woman knows that this is UK business, He sends small biting flies at him, he drives them away; tells the Sloth to climb to the top of the tree to see if dawn is coming; he says it's dark everywhere, then opens his ass, and from there he shines light, everyone thinks that dawn, the Sloth closes hell, laughs; when he reaches the village, in the presence of A. The UK opens the purse again, a small bird flies out; "It's good that they discovered it along the way," says the UK; the big bird flew to where the bodies of animals and birds are from bitter cassava, and here people can eat meat; morning came]: Hill 2009:75-80; macuna [four Ayawa brothers went to the Master of the Night (Ñami bükü - Viejo Noche) to ask the leaves to cover the maloka; he gave a vascular, ordering them to open after completion of construction; Bokanea (younger, naughty brother) heard sounds in the vessel on the way home; elder A. did not order to open it, but B. allegedly went swimming, opened it; it became dark, half of the leaves managed to return to the Master of the Night before the vascular was closed again; the maloka was reopened, but only half of the leaves were enough; then I had to work by myself (and now); they came back to the Master of the Night after night; B. opened the vessel again halfway; jaguars, evil spirits, bats, thunders appeared; in the dark, the bird "el que quita ojos" took out everyone's eyes; a non-venomous spider was sent to the Night Master, it was himself but B.; the spider brought a basket of eyes; all the animals returned their eyes; when six eyes were left, the left one was inserted instead of the right one, so the left one could see worse; the elder A. adjusted the night; went again to the Master Nights to ask for sleep; B. came in without shamanic preparations, fell asleep, so dreams can be bad; if older A. did it, dreams would only be good; at first, when they woke up, dreams became In reality, elder A. corrected this; after completing the creation, the A. brothers rose to heaven; shamans rise to them]: Århem et al. 2004:472-479; Uitoto [Jitobene sent his son to marry Ticone; she refused, because the young man is ugly, not like the leader's son; the father sent his son down the river to the sorcerers; he is fasting in a hut, urinating in one place, where a fish was born; the sister secretly gave it to his brother from his father, who lost his shamanic power; a woman came, united with him, they came to her parents; the young man warned that if he died, it would rain in the sun, the rainbow would turn red; his wife's brothers tore it parts, ate; the wife ordered not to eat the heart and genitals; the father saw a red rainbow, went to heaven in a trance (where his son was taken), took the skeleton, heart, genitals; the son orders them to be buried at the foot of Gorlyankovaya trees, another to sow on the grave; the Heart of Jitobeo tree grew; on it a huge worm with its tail to the ground; these are J.'s genitals; Chief Kanijone's daughters went down to the river, naming everything in the water; The worm hit both of them with its tail, cut them, so the women had breasts; the girls began to catch fish, it made a hole in their genitals; so J. took revenge on women; since then they have been open to men; Chief K. gathered people to cut down a tree; those who tried to cut died: the axes bounced, the worm bit fatally; called two Jitomas (one Jitoma, the other Fizido; the helper spirit told them to go to their aunt - to the mistress of sleep; she could not be woken up; from the impact she woke up, gave the bag, told her not to open it along the way; F. opened it, the brothers fell asleep; Hitoma fell on the rock, F. to the ground, the worms began to eat it; the steel that climbed inside with veins thrown into the water - fish; when the brothers woke up, returned to the mistress of sleep, gave the dead bird, caused a hurricane; the hostess asked him to stop, gave him the bag again, taught him to replace it with a fake soft wood (yarumo) Thunder club; the brothers also took the mirror (causes lightning); Thunder's daughter woke her father up, he grabbed a false club, broke it; he still had a female club; the brothers were allowed to try a club, a mirror; broke a tree; F. also died, H. revived it; the brothers put the worm to sleep on a tree, smashed it apart with thunder; the front became a tapir, the back became a manatee; threw the club and mirror into the water, they became electric eels and stingrays; F. died; H. found a hummingbird egg, F. was born from it again; the brothers came to the house of Cricket (cucarron); F. sat down on the ground, it was eaten by crickets; avenging his brother, H. made a house made of cotton wool and wax; set fire at the consecration festival of the new house; the possum's tail was burnt, the squirrel had its whole body (now dark); the cricket hid in the hole; H. cursed him, telling him to eat excrement]: Urbina 1986:47-65; Andoque [Garza de Bocana (Heron of the Estuary, GB) came to Garza de centro (Heron of the Center, GS, aka Nenefí); when he saw the HS wife bathe, he wanted to take a better look, fell into the water, drowned, HS revived him; GB went to his place, prepared the war of the Talking Tree in revenge; the two sons of HS saw two worms on the tree; there were more and more of them, they started shooting wood chips; battleships they wanted to knock down a tree, but could not come, because there were stinging wasps and ants; the birds could not peck insects; the HS asked Thunder to give his sword, but he gave a fake one made of soft balsa and a copy of a mirror; a sword crashed against the tree, the tree laughed; GS sent a bat and her brother to Grandma Sleep, who woke her up with a coca in her knee; she wrapped a dream from her left and right eyes, gave it to them; on the way they unfolded the sheet, fell asleep, sleep returned to the hostess; HS sent a Comet to her; he took a dream from the hostess, came to Thunder, put him to sleep; Thunder left his son for himself from an Andoque woman, his name was the Thunder of Stone; GS asked He changed his father's sword to a wooden one, he changed him, receiving two fruits of Chrysophilum caimito; GS asked Thunder Stone to use his weapon himself; he first lit lightning with a mirror, the insects trembled; hit they fell with a sword; the second time the tree collapsed, half fell on the river, the other on the Hinterland, some leaves turned into frogs; the thunder woke up, wanted to destroy people, but his son threatened to stand up for them; the fallen tree turned into a sandstone stone, the root came out and became a toad]: Landaburu, Pineda 1981:57-63 (=1984:60); Pineda 1975, No. 4:453; okaina [mother's lover killed father twins, they were born after their father's death; they ask their mother where their father is; she replies that she climbed for fruit, fell off a tree; brothers try to fall, they are alive, they ask again; she comes up with something again; they injure a butterfly from the sarbakan, which refers to the grasshopper, that to the woodpecker; the woodpecker tells him to be cured first; says that on the side where the sound of the slit gong comes from lives the father who ate them; brothers reward the woodpecker by giving him a red hat; they waited for and killed Drake (his mother's lover and their father's murderer; Blixen, p. 116: this is a deviation from the usual version in which either a jaguar or a monkey} made soup out of it, given to the mother; she tells them to make a trap, turns into a rat, falls into this trap; the brothers leave; their mother is now a frog, hiding in the ground, they dig there, find a worm egg, decide to raise a brother; pierced an egg, hit him in his eye; a boy came out, remained one-eyed; two sisters saw two sparkling worms on the tree; called people, more and more worms, they made fire, the tree threatened a world fire; The brothers (two and a third one-eyed) are called for help; they go to Thunder, climbing into the sky, throwing carrizos that pierce each other (var: climbing a tree); the twins failed to create a chain from darts, the younger brother created; the dart chain turns into a vine (they argue which one is too smooth, the other is prickly); you can't approach Thunder, they fall asleep; then they go to their snake grandmother, that gives them a dream wrapped in a sheet; The one-eyed man says he saw that the grandmother did not put anything; they open the bag, fall asleep; the grandmother reluctantly sleeps again; the thunder falls asleep, his daughter does not; for now The one-eyed man flirts with her, the twins replace the club and mirror (causes lightning) of Thunder; when they came down, añuje, at their request, cut off the vine, it fell, injuring its paws; the brothers told the battleship To undermine the roots of the tree, with Thunder's weapons they knocked it west; Thunder was surprised that its former strength was gone]: Blixen 1999, No. 5:113-134.

Southern Amazon. Nambiquara [humans did not sleep; a person comes to a snake (Columrideos family, subfamily Dipsadineos), asks for sleep; a snake gives uruku with wasps, people have been sleeping ever since]: Pereira 1983, No. 51:85-86; kamayura [no sleep; wives of the Sun and Month ask Uiau to give them sleep, get them]: Villas Boas, Villas Boas 1970:157; bakairi [see J12 motif; Keri and Kama went to sleep with their aunt Ewaka, that said that the Lizard was dreaming; they lay down in the Lizard's hammocks and fell asleep; in the morning she gave them hammocks with her; on the way they lay down in hammocks but could not sleep; they came back and snatched the Lizard's eyelids; since then People eat eyelids and can sleep]: Steinen 1897:324-325.